hness and lack of repentance toward the man in this poem cannot be fully realized until looking at the final two stanzas as well as the illustration. The second stanza reads, "And I waterd it in fears,/ Night & morning with my tears:/ And I sunned it with smiles./ And with soft deceitful wiles" (Songs of Experience Pg.39). This stanza is completely centered on the tree that the "foe" would later steal an apple from. Blake's is obviously making a symbol and allegory in reference to the Bible and the Garden of Eden. Now the question is whether the Blake's tree symbolizes, from the Bible, the tree of good and evil or the tree of life. Does it even matter which tree was being symbolized here? These are questions that should be answered to fully understand the poem. Some knowledge of the Bible is in order to accomplish this. One tree from the Garden of Eden is the tree of good and evil; this is the tree from which Eve took the fruit (however not an apple) and shared it with Adam. Satan, in the form of a serpent, tempted Eve by telling her that she would be wise and know the difference between good and evil if she ate the fruit off the tree. The second tree is the tree of life which also contains fruit, that if eaten will bring the eater eternal life. Because Adam and Eve ate from the tree of good and evil, they were not allowed to eat from the tree of life and therefore banished from Eden. From the second stanza alone, it is impossible to make a reference towards what tree is being referred to. Interesting is that Blake states, "And I waterd it in fears" (Songs of Experience Pg.39). Blake's "wrath" was accompanied with "fear." Fear from what? Could it be the fear from Blake's foe? Or could it be fear that fruit from the tree could be stolen? One can assume that Blake's fear stems for his actions in lines 6-9; "Night & morning with my tears:/ And I sunned it with smiles./ And with soft deceitful wiles" (Songs of Exper...